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November 10, 2009

Comic Legend Alan Moore to Pen a Libretto for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewitt's 'Monkey' Followup...

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The Guardian:

For the follow-up to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s opera Monkey: Journey to the West, the duo have turned to a man best known for flawed superheroes, melancholy swamp things and a nymphomaniac Alice in Wonderland. Comics legend Alan Moore is to write the lyrics for the pair’s next production, he has revealed.

“They came down to Northampton last week because we’re planning for me to do the libretto on their next opera ,” Moore recently told Mustard magazine. Though Moore offered no more details than that – and semi-erroneously referred to the pair as Gorillaz – Moore’s news will still set Blur (and comics) fans salivating. Albarn and Hewlett’s last show, Monkey: Journey to the West, was a hit in 2007 and led to a series of animated spots for the BBC‘s Beijing Olympics coverage.



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